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added a note how to achieve status info in the bar
author arg@10ksloc.org
date Fri, 21 Jul 2006 09:59:11 +0200
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1 dwm - dynamic window manager 1 dwm - dynamic window manager
2 ---------------------------- 2 ----------------------------
3
4 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager. 3 dwm is an extremly fast, small, and dynamic X11 window manager.
5 4
6 5
7 Requirements 6 Requirements
8 ------------ 7 ------------
32 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm 31 DISPLAY=foo.bar:1 exec dwm
33 32
34 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar. 33 This will start dwm on display :1 of the host foo.bar.
35 34
36 35
36 Displaying status info
37 ----------------------
38 In order to display status info in the bar, you can do following
39 in .xinitrc:
40
41 $HOME/.dwm/status | dwm
42
43 Assumed $HOME/.dwm/status is an executable script like:
44
45 #!/bin/sh
46 while true
47 do
48 echo `date` `uptime | sed 's/.*://; s/,//g'`
49 sleep 5
50 done
51
52
37 Configuration 53 Configuration
38 ------------- 54 -------------
39 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code, 55 The configuration of dwm is done by customizing source code,
40 grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword. 56 grep for CUSTOMIZE keyword.